Invention and Economic Growth / / Jacob Schmookler.
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1966 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | 2nd printing 1976. Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 27 charts, 49 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- The setting of the problem
- Patent statistics
- The role of intellectual stimuli
- The use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions
- Productivity advance: A Case of supply and demand?
- The amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market – the evidence of time series
- The amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market – the evidence of cross sections
- The sources of invention and the changing state of knowledge
- The role of demand in consumer goods invention
- On the "Inevitability" of individual inventions
- Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix A: Statistical Appendix
- Appendix B: Inventors Past and Present
- Appendix C: Important inventions in the Railroad Industry
- Appendix D. important mechanical inventions in agriculture
- Appendix E: Important inventions in the petroleum industry
- Appendix F: Important inventions in the paper industry
- Index